You grab the bar of soap and quickly use it to draw a picture of yourself on the window.  Excited you wait and wait some more.  Nothing happens.  You begin to wonder what you are supposed to do.  Then it occurs to you, a self-portrait is a drawing of yourself!  A portrait is a drawing of someone else!  As this realization comes to you your wallet plops onto the floor and spills a quarter which rolls into a dark corner and through a crack in the wall where it will never be found again (subtract $0.25 from your wallet).